Trivia (39)

When Vince Vaughn slapped Snoop Dogg during the golfing scene, it was unexpected the first time. Todd Phillips said, "Snoop went on with the scene, and then when it ended he said, 'What the hell was that?'"

Co-Writer and Director Todd Phillips was having a hard time finding a blueish 1976 Lincoln for Huggy Bear. When he revealed this to Snoop Dogg, he was surprised to learn that Snoop actually owned a car of the right color, and it's his car that appeared in the movie.

Originally, co-Writer and Director Todd Phillips wanted the knife-throwing scene to feature ninja stars instead. But the idea was scrapped when learning that any scene featuring ninja stars would automatically get an 18 Rating in the UK.

When filming the yacht scenes with Vince Vaughn, Todd Phillips became very seasick and mentioned that he hated boats. When asked why he included one in his screenplay, he vowed never to write or shoot a scene on boats again.

The scene where Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are wearing their shoulder holsters and the little towels came straight from a Starsky and Hutch (1975) poster of Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul doing the same thing.

About ten 1975 to 1976 Ford Gran Torinos were totalled during production. Only two Torinos from the film were intact. One of them is a 1976 Gran Torino with the Starsky and Hutch (1975) paint job, and the other was a base 1974 Torino, which had been in storage. In reality, the 1976 and 1974 Torino, which were used in the film, were repainted with the white stripe resembling the one used on the television show. All of the movie Torinos used fifteen-inch slot mag rims. They're not available new, so the rims (originally known as the Ansen Sprint, first introduced in 1963, and subsequently copied by several aftermarket wheel manufacturers, E-T Wheels, Appliance, Cragar, Fenton, American Racing, U.S. Wheel until the early 1980s) mostly came from swap meets, salvage yards, or eBay.

Starsky's Finkle character and disguise at the auction (continuing a gag from The Ben Stiller Show (1990)) was something Ben Stiller had intended on using in Zoolander (2001) for Jerry Stiller's "Maury" character.

Fred Williamson (Captain Dobey) has a shared screen history with Bernie Hamilton, the original Captain Dobey on Starsky and Hutch (1975). Williamson and Hamilton appeared in Hammer (1972) and Bucktown (1975).

"[Huggy is trying to convince Hutch to forgive Starsky] Huggy Bear: Dig this man. Someone once said: "To err is human, to forgive divine." Hutch: Tch. What idiot said that? Huggy Bear: I believe that was God - the greatest mack of all." Actually, this quote is from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" Part II (1711).